Tuesday, October 11, 2016

IN THE INTEREST OF ECONOMY

William H. Clark.

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, March 24,
1893.

In the
Interest of Economy.

Editor Clark seems to think that the
taxpayers appreciate what Police Justice Bull has
done for them after all. In the Standard of the 17th inst., in the
article "A
Question on Salaries," he says some very good things that we should like
to see carried out. With a President and Board of Trustees that want to do the
same, the taxpayers can be relieved of a far greater sum than the reduction of
salaries. The laws of the State of New York, 1883, Chap. 153, provide that in
any Village having a paid police force, no other officer shall receive any fees
before Magistrates or Courts of Special Session or for summary arrests. Not only
have our own town officers done this, but I am informed on good authority that
officers from other towns have been in the habit of making an arrest or two
when they come here, to help pay expenses.

We have just spent $3,000 in the addition to
Firemen's Hall and have a lockup of our own, why not use it, and have the
vagrants that ask for a night's lodging stay there, instead of being arrested
and making a charge of $7 or $9. When the Poormaster kept one over night it was
a county charge, and cost the whole county from 75 cts. to $1.00, but when they
are arrested they are a town charge and this town pays it all.

Will Mr. Clark tell his readers what has become
of the following resolutions, which were passed by the Board of Supervisors,
the 29th day of Nov. 1890?

Resolved, That this Board request and instruct the County Superintendent of the Poor to
issue to the Police Justice of the village of Cortland; also the town Poormaster
of Cortlandville, full authority to give orders on the Sheriff of Cortland county to
furnish lodging and breakfast for any tramp.

Resolved, That the Sheriff be instructed to furnish these orders when presenting his
[bill] to the Board of Supervisors for audit, and in case these orders do not accompany
his bill, such charges will not be allowed. And be it further

Resolved, That the Sheriff be instructed to send all tramps asking for lodging at
the jail, to either the Police Justice or town Poormaster for an order, as
mentioned above, before receiving such tramp, and in case this not done, then
the Board of Supervisors will not audit any such charges where this course is
not pursued.

ECONOMY. [pen name of
contributor.]

Electric
Lights in Street Cars.

The Cortland and Homer Street Railroad Co.,
have lately received a car that is thoroughly equipped with astorage
battery and other appliances for lighting the same with electricity. The
company have placed power and an electric motor on their premises between this
place and Homer, which will generate the electricity that will supply the
batteries. It is expected that the car will be running in a few days. The
public will greatly appreciate the company's efforts to better serve its patrons
by giving better light in the cars.

"Electric
Light in the Street Cars."

The
Cortland and Homer Street Railroad Co. have lately received a car that is thoroughly
equipped with a storage battery and other appliances for lighting the same with
electricity. The company have placed power and an electric motor on their
premises between this place and Homer, which will generate the electricity that
will supply the batteries. It is expected that the car will be running in a few
days. The public will greatly appreciate the company's efforts to better serve
its patrons by giving better light in the cars.

The
above item appeared in the Cortland Democrat
this morning. A reporter of The STANDARD at once called upon Mr. L. D.
Garrison, the treasurer of the railroad company, showed him the item and asked
if it was true. Mr. Garrison said there was nothing in it; the company had not
received such a car; no power or electric motor had been placed upon their
premises, nor had any arrangements for this been made.

The subject of electric lighting of cars had
not been mentioned at all by any one so far as he knew, and he thought he was
in a position to know all about it. As a matter of fact, a party from Syracuse
representing the same company which had for a short time used the storage
battery cars in that city was in Cortland three days ago to see if an arrangement
could be made by which they could put a storage battery car upon this railroad
and operate it at their own expense for a time and simply for the sake of
trying an experiment. The storage battery would be used to run the cars not to
light them, as the Democrat says. No
arrangement was made and there is no certainty that one will be, though it may
be within the range of possibility sometime in the future.

The Democrat
generally gets its news from an authentic source—the Daily STANDARD. Whenever
it does take a spurt and show signs of enterprise it generally shoots into the
air with results like the above. Go slow, neighbor, and be sure of the facts.—Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, March
24, 1893.

NEIGHBORING
COUNTIES.

CHENANGO.—Sherburne's centennial celebration
will be held June 21st.

Dr. Livingstone, of Bennettsville, Chenango
county, has regained the power of speech and hearing, after being a deaf mute
nearly 65 years. When three years old an attack of scarlet fever left him
entirely deaf, and be soon became a mute. Two weeks since he awoke in the night
with a pain in his head as if he had been struck with a club, and he cried out
to his wife. They heard each others' voices for the first time and talked until
morning.

Thursday morning Charles Gould appeared
before Justice Throop in Norwich, and complained of his three girls, Emma, aged
fifteen, Florence, aged fourteen, and Rose, aged thirteen, stating that his
wife had died several years ago, since which time he had endeavored to earn an
honest living and care for the motherless daughters; but they had fallen into
bad company, were beyond his control, and he asked for their arrest. A warrant
was issued, the charge being vagrancy, and later they were arrested. The
evidence in the case was heard and the two youngest girls were sentenced to the
State Industrial School at Rochester. Emma, the oldest, promised to do better, and
was discharged. Officer Steere left Friday morning, with the two young girls,
for Rochester.

MADISON.—Ten thousand brook trout fry are to
be placed in Beaver creek, near Brookfield, this season.

The Brookfield Baptist church, erected in
1819, is soon to be rebuilt and modernized.

Reuben Green, the oldest resident of
Brookfield, died Monday, aged nearly 100 years.

Harley
Klock, a Lenox Basin farmer, was fined $15 for cruelty to animals, he being so
shiftless that he let them go days without food or water.

Frank B. Beedleson, Canastota's one-legged
bicyclist, starts June 1 to ride from San Francisco to New York, a distance of
4,000 miles. He expects to make the trip in less than 100 days.

Nearly a car load of Englishmen, right from
the old country, landed in Hubbardsville the other day and expect to find
employment among the farmers of that vicinity.

TOMPKINS. — A Law and Order League has been
organized in Ithaca.

The total amount of school monies in the
towns of the county and city of Ithaca, is $27,938.69.

The election of supervisors in Ithaca, last
week, makes the Board Democratic by a majority of one.

The State has appropriated three thousand
dollars for a portrait of Ezra Cornell, to be placed in the State Capitol.

The trustees of Cornell University have
refused to allow the Ithaca Street Railway to extend its lines upon the campus.

In the suit against the town of Newfield for
damages caused by a defective bridge, a verdict for $7,000 was rendered. It
don't pay to keep rotten bridges on hand.

Elmer Norcott, who underwent an operation at
the City Hospital some weeks ago, has so far recovered as to be removed to his
residence. There is every possibility of his full restoration to health.

The civil damage case of Michael Brennan
against Sandy Patten and wife, of Ithaca, has been settled by the defendants. A
year ago last Friday Thomas Brennan was found frozen to death near Halseyville
with indications that he had perished while under the influence of liquor. He
was a son of the plaintiff in the case, and the action grew out of the fact
that the young man was supposed to have bought his whiskey of Patten.

HERE AND
THERE.

The Candy Kitchen has a window full of
walnuts on exhibition.

The spring term of the Marathon Academy
commences on Monday next.

Half-hour street cars are again running.
They run between the hours of 9 and 11 A. M., and 1 and 5 P. M.

Mr. Ed. L. Adams, editor and proprietor of
the Independent, has been elected president of the village of Marathon.
No opposition. Congratulations.

On March 15th, the town board accepted the
resignation of town clerk William Corcoran, and immediately reappointed him to
fill the vacancy caused by his resignation.

The King's Daughters wish to call attention
to the following change: Mrs. L. Snyder, director of local charity, in the 3dward, in place of Mrs. E. Bostwick, resigned.

Two hose companies have entered the tug of
war contests and the relay foot races for the 45th Separate Company's fair.
Geo. Franz, Mr. LaMonde and D. P. Nichols, of Syracuse, and Patsy Connors, of
Homer, have entered the ten mile foot race.

Mr. F. A. Bickford has leased the small
building on the north side of Railroad street, nearly opposite Cobb &
Perkins' store and has opened a general repair shop. Mr. Bickford's well known
reputation as a first-class mechanic should keep him busy. Bicycles, sewing
machines, clothes wringers, etc. promptly repaired, and at reasonable prices.

The postal note, which has never been very popular,
will be succeeded by the postal script. A sheet calling for amount from one
cent to $3 has been prepared, from which, on the payment of one cent, the
amount to be sent will be torn off, about the same as an express order. There
will be no writing on it of any kind by the postmaster, the sender endorsing
the check or draft. The government guarantees its safe transportation.

TOWN
REPORTS.

SCOTT.

Menze Grinnell has hired to Ernest Clark the
meat man.

We hear that Miss Nora Grout of this town is
quite low.

Mr. F. M. Hazard went to Syracuse on business
last Monday.

Mr. S. J. Hazard has returned from Cortland
to his father's house.

Adelbert Chrysler will move into the Fisk house
near Dan Cottrell's.

Mr. Morton Whiting went to Syracuse on
Monday to buy a stock of spring goods.

Mrs. Salisbury has hired Miss Maud Newman to
teach the north village school.

Mrs. B. F. Rogers has gone upon a visit to
Berlin, Rensselear Co., where she will spend several weeks with her parents.

It is understood that Wm. N. Babcock has
hired Clark Fritts to work in blacksmith shop this corning season with him.

Mr. H. Ward Childs and wife are visiting his
father and brother Hon. S. A. Childs and Mr. E. W. Childs of this town.

Lewis Babcock is moving on to the Geo.
Burden farm, Mr. Burden moving into the house with his father-in-law Gordon Bailey.

There will be a maple sugar festival at the
M. E. Church on Saturday evening, March 26th, under the auspices of the Ladles
Aid Society.

Robins and blackbirds have put in an
appearance; which denotes that summer is nigh. The blackbirds are awful large, fully
as large as crows.

Mrs. Adella Salisbury we think has the
finest yard of berry bushes in this town. She is looking for more help with the
increase of business.

Mr. Chauncey Fairchild has hired the Stillman
house for the coming year. Mr. James Unkless will move into the Child's house
north of the S. D. B. Church.

Mr. C. L. Jones of Homer has sold his farm,
known as the Cobb farm to a Mr. Springer. He has already taken possession.
Consideration $2,750. 70 acres.

Quite a large company gathered at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Stoker last week Wednesday evening. Supper was served
and a good time reported. Five dollars was realized for the M. E. Aid Society.

While some of the states are passing laws
making it a penal offence to sell or use cigarettes the N. Y. Tribune is
congratulating the country over the great increase of that "Industry"
under the McKinley tariff.

Mr. Stephen S. Brown of this town died at
his home last Sunday morning. Funeral on Tuesday at the house. Burial at the
new cemetery. His age was about 66 years. He was the youngest son of Timothy
Brown deceased, an early settler and noted hunter.

We learn that the property of the late Washington
Brown of Minnesota, was bequeathed as follows: to Mrs. Adella Hathaway all
household goods, to Miss Genevieve Babcock of this town $400; to his brother
Denison Brown $100; the residue to be equally divided between Mrs. Hathaway's
two children Ray and May, which is supposed to mean several thousand apiece.

LITTLE
YORK.

Frank Pindar has moved into one of the Cushing
tenement houses.

Mrs. D. W. Wilbur is quite sick. Dr. Hunt of
Preble attends her.

Miss Hatttie Churchill of Spafford has been
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Edwin Pratt.

Ed Morse and family have returned from a
visit to Harry Denison's in Truxton.

There was a private dance at John Sharps'
last Thursday night. Chas. Wagoner furnished the music.

There was a surprise party and dance at Frank
Pindar's last Thursday night. Fred Corl furnished the music.

Wm. Isbell and wife commenced work for Wm. Rice
on Monday. They get $30 per month for eight months.

Wm. T. Perkins is again running his coal
kiln liter an Idleness of six weeks on account of the snow. He has orders ahead
for over 3,000 bushels.

Mr. Gallinger is shipping hay that he has
purchased in this vicinity. He pays $9.50 per
ton for good hay and takes it at the farmers' barns. John Glllet, Jr. does the
pressing for him.

The New York milk jobbers, who have handled
the milk of the Farmers' Milk Union for the past year, have refused to take it
after April 1st. The members of the milk union held a meeting last week but did
not decide what they would do with their milk for the ensuing year.

The wedding at Frank Pratt's passed off quietly,
with about fifty guests in attendance. The presents were said to be numerous
and costly. By a mistake last week we gave the bride's name as Miss Rose Pratt
when we should have said Miss Nellie Pratt. Our enterprising neighbor, who is
keeping a list of the mistakes we make, has a chance to add one more to his
list. [Reference to the Cortland Standard—CC
editor.]